Tradition, Creation and Recognition in Aboriginal Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Ms Estelle Castro (2007). Tradition, Creation and Recognition in Aboriginal Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries PhD Thesis, EMSAH/Institut du Monde Anglophone, The University of Queensland.

       
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Author Ms Estelle Castro
Thesis Title Tradition, Creation and Recognition in Aboriginal Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
School, Centre or Institute EMSAH/Institut du Monde Anglophone
Institution The University of Queensland
Publication date 2007-11-23
Thesis type PhD Thesis
Supervisor Prof. David Carter
Prof. Marta Dvorak
Total pages 606
Total black and white pages 606
Subjects 420000 Language and Culture
Formatted abstract By exploring notions of tradition, creation and recognition, intrinsically linked to
those of memory, knowledges and representations, this thesis aims at examining how
dialectics of identity and techniques of rewriting shape contemporary Aboriginal Literature,
particularly in works of fiction by Terri Janke, Kim Scott, Sam Watson, Eric Willmot and
Alexis Wright, and poetry by Lisa Bellear, Lionel Fogarty, Romaine Moreton, Kerry Reed-
Gilbert and Samuel Wagan Watson. Aboriginal writers have underlined the importance of oral
traditions, of family and community relationships, and of their inalienable connection to the
land through a poetics of anchoring and relation. Facing two hundred years of colonisation,
they have represented and contested stories and acts of injustice and oppression, and
presented an alternative version of the history of the Australian continent. By examining how
Aboriginal ontologies and epistemologies are woven within the texts through strategies of
oralisation and literarisation, this thesis shows how the writers continue oral and cultural
practices, open up spaces for sharing, and create memories for the future. This thesis focuses
on the poetic, didactic, political, and axiological dimensions of the works and performances
by these writers, which allow them to renew ancestral traces, remind readers and listeners that
places are known though their (hi)stories and challenge them to participate in the
decolonisation of the minds and of society, and assert « the sovereignty of their imagination
Keyword territoriality, orality, epistemologies, (dé)colonisation, (hi)stories, interculturality
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